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  1. Facebook privacy changes draw mixed reviews
  2. Hackers find a home in Amazon's EC2 cloud
  3. Q&A: Digital signatures and use cases for Adobe CDS
  4. Apple tablet rumors: February production start, 10-inch LCD screen
  5. Packard Bell Recalls Lithium-Ion Batteries
  6. Four Database Security Tips for Dealing with SQL Injections
  7. Adobe fixes critical Flash Player flaws
  8. How Easy Is It For The Police To Get GPS Data From Your Phone?
  9. Eastern Illinois University server hacked
  10. Verizon: Data Breaches Getting More Sophisticated
  11. Feds go global to fight cybercriminals overseas
  12. Law firms the next target of hackers
  13. Facebook blocking users for being too social
  14. 5 TSA Employees on Leave After Security Manual Posted Online
  15. iptables 1.4.6 released
  16. Seven Ways to Make Your Security Budget Pay Off in 2010
  17. Facebook announces privacy improvements, (Wed, Dec 9th)
  18. E-card malware scam
  19. Google exec on Apps uptime, security and enterprise traction
  20. BSidesBay unconference targets tough security, risk questions
  21. 4 Database Security Tips for Dealing With SQL Injections
  22. OSSEC 2.3 released, (Wed, Dec 9th)
  23. Threats and threat technologies in 2010
  24. New Poll: What DNS service do you use (see right hand sidebar), (Wed, Dec 9th)
  25. H4ck3rs are people too: Film review
  26. Symantec security, storage offerings now on Amazon?s EC2
  27. TSA posts document on airport screening procedures online
  28. Computer of alleged Sarah Palin hacker had spyware
  29. Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Critical Update for IE
  30. Adobe bends, a little, on eBook DRM
  31. Guard Your Online Privacy With Firefox Addon
  32. Report predicts rise of self-defending botnets
  33. Facebook simplifies privacy options
  34. Facebook Privacy Changes Go Live, Beware of "Everyone"
  35. 10 Lessons Learned from Climate Scientists' Stolen E-Mails
  36. Top 10 botnets and their impact
  37. Facebook Improves Privacy, Security Controls to Protect Users
  38. Global IT-related risk framework
  39. ntpd upgrade to prevent spoofed looping, (Wed, Dec 9th)
  40. ntpd upgrade to prevent spoofed looping, (Wed, Dec 9th)
  41. Top 15 most common security attacks
  42. 2009: the final Patch Tuesday
  43. RFID passport identity theft made simple
  44. FIFA World Cup related scams
  45. Advances in surveillance, more attacks on the horizon
  46. Adobe plugs dangerous Flash Player security holes
  47. Adobe flash player and air patched, (Wed, Dec 9th)
  48. Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3.0
  49. Dell pulls in $6.5 million in revenue thanks to Twitter
  50. Apple preparing first betas of Mac OS X 10.6.3
  51. 'Fake fingerprint' Chinese woman fools Japan controls
  52. Google Chrome for Mac Beta Released
  53. Microsoft combines Windows Server and Azure to form new Server & Cloud unit
  54. MIT Researchers Develop Tech for New Generation of Airport Scanners
  55. Apple Expels 1,000 Apps From Store After Developer Scam
  56. 24,000 Notre Dame employees affected by data breach
  57. Hack This Zine Version 8.0: Beautiful Technolust Released
  58. Hong Kong police act over peer-to-peer data leak
  59. Hacked email climate scientists receive death threats
  60. Cisco: Smart Grids Can Improve The World
  61. Cybercrime is crime with different tactics – interview with Bruce Schneier
  62. iTunes Rewind declares best selling iTunes content of 2009
  63. Hackers take advantage of Microsoft security bulletins to spread malware
  64. TJX Hacker to Plead Guilty to Heartland Breach
  65. Modern Warfare 2 PS3 Leaderboards Hacked to Crap
  66. Researcher demonstrates Pentagon XSS vulnerability
  67. Sri Lankan suspects remanded for alleged e-banking fraud
  68. TSA security manual posted online
  69. Google offers search by sight
  70. Google Sues Over Alleged Work-From-Home Scams
  71. eWEEK Labs Picks the Stupid Tech Tricks of 2009
  72. Fake fingerprint fools biometric devices
  73. Microsoft releases six security bulletins
  74. December 2009 Black Tuesday Overview, (Tue, Dec 8th)
  75. Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs IE 'drive-by download' security holes
  76. Microsoft Fixes Critical IE Security Vulnerabilities in 2009's Final Patch Tuesday
  77. 2009 Products of the Year
  78. New cloud-based hacking service can crack Wi-Fi passwords in 20 minutes
  79. Google sues over work-at-home schemes
  80. Company sued by Google had a profitable year
  81. Critical Adobe Flash Update
  82. Critical Adobe Flash Update
  83. SecureWorks Acquires U.K. Managed Security Firm
  84. Social media a playground for cybercriminals
  85. Conficker worm to become a bigger threat in 2010
  86. Free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows
  87. Corporate information security comes under attack
  88. Network security IPS with zero-day malware protection
  89. 5 key security trends for the next decade
  90. Patching our children
  91. Seagate introduces Pulsar, its first solid state drive
  92. After code is released, Adobe Illustrator fix due Jan 8
  93. Social network and banking scams are on the rise, says Cisco
  94. Judge affirms $675,000 verdict in RIAA music piracy case
  95. New cloud-based service steals Wi-Fi passwords
  96. Economic Recovery: Will Your IT Security Department Leave?
  97. FTC to consider stricter online privacy rules
  98. Facebook users fall for rubber duck's friend request
  99. Spam speaks Irish
  100. Follow the money: The ROI Scareware, Spyware, click fraud, pharma spam
  101. First salvo fired in Battle of Copenhagen
  102. How to remove rootkits by hand
  103. Yahoo in legal spat over sensitive document
  104. 10 phones that’ll rock your world in 2010
  105. Intel Won't Give Up GPU Push, Analysts Say
  106. Judge affirms $675k verdict in RIAA music piracy case
  107. Laptop Thief Nabs Hospital Patient Data
  108. UAE IT market poised for massive growth
  109. How the '10 Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders were chosen
  110. Spacebook laptop to launch screen space race
  111. 10 Reasons Why Apple's Lala Buy Could Bring Online Success
  112. PayPal copies Apple’s iPhone recipe and allows others to join the party
  113. Meg Whitman says EBay didn't misuse Craigslist data
  114. Will 2010 (Finally) Be Blu-ray's Year?
  115. Facebook users at risk of "rubber duck" identity attack
  116. A quick first look at USB 3.0 performance
  117. Yahoo and others give consumers more privacy options to fight off regulation
  118. P2P pirate told to pay up and trash your files
  119. Phishing campaign targets cPanel users
  120. People are using personal laptops for work
  121. Nokia N900: The Cell Phone You're Supposed to Hack
  122. Apple sued by patent trolls over iPhone camera
  123. UK CERT fighting 300 attacks per year
  124. Software upgrades spark fears
  125. FBI warns law firms about hackers
  126. Secure customer loyalty with the gift of data security
  127. Knesset approves controversial Biometric Database Law
  128. New Cloud-based Service Steals Wi-Fi Passwords
  129. NASA sites hacked via SQL injection
  130. The hidden costs of identity theft
  131. Phishing Attacks Cost Millions Despite Low Success Rate
  132. WPA cloud cracking service for penetration testers
  133. Facebook establishes new Safety Advisory Board
  134. Looking back at spam in 2009
  135. Phishing campaign targets cPanel users
  136. Open source NAC system PacketFence 1.8.6 released
  137. Safety in the cloud
  138. Researchers break into BitLocker
  139. Novell grabs for big role in virtualization security
  140. DoorStop X Security Suite 2.3
  141. China warns of Skype phishing, shuts offending domain
  142. The Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
  143. iPhone winning over some corporate security skeptics
  144. "You are signing in from an unfamiliar location."
  145. Layer 2 Network Protections reloaded!, (Mon, Dec 7th)
  146. Koobface worm on Facebook: The Christmas trick
  147. Q&A: Web application scanning
  148. Video surveillance for security applications
  149. Host-based IDS OSSEC 2.3 released
  150. New books: Windows 7, Python, project management
  151. News to know: Apple; Phishing attacks; RIM; Intel
  152. heise online and Secunia introduces Online Vulnerability scanning for German users
  153. Week in review: iPhone data harvesting, encryption key laws and security trends in 2010
  154. What's behind my Classmate PC problems?
  155. Cheat Sheet: Analyzing Malicious Documents, (Mon, Dec 7th)
  156. Macs Reclaim Top Reliability Rating
  157. Five Reasons Why Android Could Kill Windows Mobile
  158. Man Downloads Child Porn “Accidentally,” Faces Up To 20 Years in Prison
  159. Strange data recovery requests: Server room brawls and flying laptops...
  160. Google extends personalised search to all
  161. Yahoo, Microsoft finalise search deal
  162. Germans devise attacks on Windows BitLocker
  163. HSBC exposed sensitive bankruptcy data
  164. Is Google Public DNS safe? Look at the source ports
  165. Physicists race to publish first results from LH
  166. The 30 most anticipated games of 2010
  167. Shodan scares me
  168. Russian tabloid hacked, loses entire archives
  169. S'pore Wi-Fi hotspots protected from lawsuits
  170. “Little Rat” Hackers Arrested
  171. Cell Phone Security Ignoring Risk to Sensitive Calls
  172. SELinux and PostgreSQL: a worthwhile union
  173. Lawsuit against breached Express Scripts dismissed
  174. Experts Not Surprised By iPhone Malicious App Report
  175. Data Masking Helps Keep Live Data From Peeking Out, Experts Say
  176. AOL Ditches Security Tokens To Make Logging In Easier
  177. Is Apple Buying LaLa To Kill It?
  178. Microsoft Planning Last Patch Tuesday Of 2009
  179. Antivirus company recommends using Google Ch
  180. The Hacker: Ease winter of discontent by kicking or throwing the ball
  181. Was Russian secret service behind email hacking plot?
  182. HSBC exposed sensitive bankruptcy data
  183. Researcher says iPhone data model could lead to malware
  184. 20 mobile trends and future technologies
  185. DoD nixes vendor of online monitoring software over privacy concerns
  186. Fortinet secures remote and branch office environments
  187. Cell phone subterfuge produces nation of spies
  188. Experts Not Surprised By iPhone Malicious App Report
  189. Java JRE Buffer and Integer Overflow, (Sat, Dec 5th)
  190. How many people fall victim to phishing attacks?
  191. Disregard INFOCON change notifications just sent - we had a glitch on the main server, (Fri, Dec 4th)
  192. Google Public DNS Security Not Breaking New Ground, Some Say
  193. Brief: Google pushes security with Public DNS
  194. Brief: Northrop, colleges form cybersecurity group
  195. News: Sequoia to show off e-voting code
  196. News: Major IE8 flaw makes 'safe' sites unsafe
  197. The economics of security advice (MSFT research paper), (Fri, Dec 4th)
  198. Max Power's Malware Paradise, (Fri, Dec 4th)
  199. Managing the Threat to Customer Data
  200. Apple issues Java update for 10.5, 10.6
  201. Comcast-NBCU union likely to face big regulatory challenge
  202. Adobe Investigates Security Vulnerability as Attack Code Surfaces
  203. NYTimes Tech Talk
  204. You get what you deserve
  205. Firewall management during the holidays
  206. iPhone data harvesting from non-jailbroken devices
  207. Security trends coming in 2010
  208. Apple updates Java for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
  209. News to know: Comcast-NBCU; Chrome netbooks; Google Public DNS; Psystar; Accenture
  210. No harm, no foul, says judge in Express Script data breach case
  211. Thanksgiving webcam promo leads to malware
  212. CDT launches campaign to help consumers demand privacy
  213. Online Privacy Campaign Site Kicks Off
  214. Google Public DNS: What It Means For Your Privacy
  215. New study calls for cybersecurity overhaul in U.S.
  216. With new attack released, Adobe to patch next week
  217. Microsoft to patch IE zero-day bug next week
  218. Securing Your iPhone Jailbreak
  219. Gumblar infection count
  220. We are receiving reports that Bing.com is down. Thank you for writing in., (Fri, Dec 4th)
  221. Apple issues Java update for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6
  222. Intel's Larrabee Hits 1TFlop of Computing Speed
  223. 5 Invasive Ways Advertisers Track Your Behavior (And What to Do About It)
  224. Britain clamps down on bogus shopping sites
  225. Psystar stops selling Mac clones with Apple's OS
  226. The Race to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain
  227. Man loses fight against firm that suffered data breach
  228. Google Launches Public DNS Service
  229. Epic Fail: Only 5 iPhones Sold in Two Weeks by China's Largest E-Tailer
  230. Howard Schmidt: Mobile devices next attack vector
  231. What's new in Linux 2.6.32
  232. The top ten security heroes
  233. Software piracy group offers cash to whistleblowers
  234. Seeing through the clouds: Challenges still to overcome
  235. Securing Your iPhone Jailbreak
  236. Zero-day flaw spotted in Adobe Illustrator
  237. Hacktivists Deface Spanish Anti-Piracy Group Website
  238. Microsoft To Fix Zero-Day IE Bug For Patch Tuesday Release
  239. Next week will be a big patch week - Adobe is also releasing patches "Adobe is planning to release an update for Adobe Flash Player 10.0.32.18 and earlier versions, and an update to Adobe AIR 1.5.2 and earlier versions, to resolve critical secur
  240. Apple released some Java updates today APPLE-SA-2009-12-03-1 & 2 (for 10.5 and 10.6). Fixes a number of security issues so updating is a good idea., (Thu, Dec 3rd)
  241. Microsoft to Fix Internet Explorer Security Hole Patch Tuesday
  242. Google Public DNS released
  243. Patch Tuesday heads-up: MS to fix 'critical' IE, Office security holes
  244. Reg Cure
  245. Reg Cure
  246. Microsoft delivers two more pieces of its Forefront enterprise security suite
  247. Cache poisoning vulnerability in ISC BIND 9
  248. Facebook plans site changes
  249. Canada closer to passing anti-spam law
  250. Who is fr3sh_card3r_rz?